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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump(1) just dumps entire partition?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 19:40:09 GMT
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Remy Card (card@bbj.freenix.fr) wrote:
: In article <4aol56$8li@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>,
: <dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu> wrote:
: >In <4ai90d$21m@mistral.toppoint.de>, kai@mistral.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt) writes:
: > No, dump cannot dump a single directory. Dump works at one step below
: >the user-level filesystem interface, at the level of inodes. At this level,
: >a directory is just an inode, like any other file or device node.
: > If you want to archive a single directory and/or work at the file level,
: >use tar or cpio or the like.
: Well, modifying dump to make it able to backup subtree should not be
: that difficult. Sun did it in SunOS and I did it when porting the 4.4BSD
: dump to Linux's Ext2fs. If there is any interest, I can try to adapt my
: changes to the FreeBSD dump.
: Remy
i think this is the right way of the FreeBSD / linux discussions :-)
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